YouTube has always presented itself as a vast library of human experience: tutorials, vlogs, explainers, music, children’s stories, news. But in 2025–2026, this library rapidly developed an extension that resembles a vending machine for text and images: press a button — get a video. This wave is increasingly being called AI slop, or “neuroslop”: content that looks like a video “about something,” but is in fact assembled from templates, repetitions, and crude but effective attention-holding tricks. It isn’t necessarily malicious. It’s simply abundant, cheap, and surprisingly sticky.
A new online platform, RentAHuman.ai, allows autonomous artificial-intelligence agents to recruit real people to carry out tasks that AI cannot perform on its own — from simple shopping and parcel collection to unusual requests and activities in the physical world. The service, which has already attracted tens of thousands of people willing to work, may signal a new stage in human–AI interaction.
Global equity markets suffered sharp losses on Wednesday after technology companies unveiled huge investment plans for artificial intelligence infrastructure, triggering investor concerns about profitability and the long-term sustainability of such spending. As a result, the combined market value of major Big Tech firms has fallen by more than $1 trillion over the past week, with shares of companies such as Amazon and Oracle coming under particularly strong pressure.
Perplexity has announced a new feature called Model Council, which allows users to query multiple advanced AI models simultaneously and receive a single, synthesized result highlighting both agreements and disagreements between the models. The new tool is primarily designed to support research, in-depth analysis, and strategic decision-making.
AI models for healthcare are proliferating, but most never leave the labs. Real-world deployment is far more complicated than any multiple-choice graduate exam – hospitals use different systems, data formats, and security protocols that resist standardization. Kaapana, an open-source platform developed at the German Cancer Research Center, addresses translation barriers by providing standardized infrastructure for medical AI research.
The full results of the first randomized controlled trial show that the use of artificial intelligence in screening mammography leads to the detection of fewer advanced and aggressive breast cancers, suggesting that AI may improve the quality of early diagnosis and potentially reduce the number of advanced-stage cases.
Oracle is reportedly considering cutting between 20,000 and 30,000 jobs and selling parts of its assets in order to raise funds for a rapid build-out of data-center infrastructure for artificial intelligence projects. The scale of the potential layoffs would rank among the largest in the company’s history.
Android Auto users are reporting a growing number of problems with the built-in voice assistant, particularly when trying to use Gemini Live, the newest AI feature in the in-car interface.
A new Visa study shows that artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming a mainstream tool for planning winter vacations, shopping, and making reservations, with U.S. consumers increasingly turning to generative AI when making travel and spending decisions—especially in the context of the upcoming Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Madhu Gottumukkala, the acting director of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), has become the focus of controversy after uploading government documents marked “For Official Use Only” to the public version of ChatGPT.